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| of all the existing organisms, the ones that are most like the earliest, structurally simple eukaryotes; eukaryotic single-celled or simple multicelled organisms that can be heterotrophic or autotrophic and motile or non-motile |
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| predatory/parasitic molds |
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| group of protists such as slime molds, chytrids, and water molds, that produce spore-bearing structures in their life cycles |
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| term for protists that resemble single-celled heterotrophic protistans that gave rise to animals; animal-like protists |
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| most common type of asexual reproduction in protozoans |
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| term for aquatic communities of mostly microscopic organisms which are motile or passive drifters |
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| organelle used to remove excess water that enters the cell osmotically |
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| informal name for the parasitic protozoans that complete part of their life cycle inside life cycles inside specific cells of host organisms |
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| disease caused by parasitic species of the genus Plasmodiaum |
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| term for communities of single-celled aquatic photosynthetic species of algae that are mainly microscopic and drift or swim weakly through the water |
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| term for protists that are plant-like |
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| term for flagellated, free-living cells, such as Euglens, that can be autotrophic or heterotrophic |
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| term for the mainly photosynthetic, free-living cells such as diatoms, golden algae, and yellow-green algae |
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| term for the mostly photosynthetic, sometimes heterotrophic marine plankton that have cellulose plates and flagella |
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| term for the population explosions dinoflagellates in which the water appears red or brown and may contain toxins that kill shellfish, fishes, and fish-eating migratory birds |
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| mostly marine algae with phycobilins and other accessory pigments that mask chlorophyll |
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| gelatinous substance used in bacteriological culture medium that is made from the extracts of cell walls from red algae |
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| extract made from the cell walls of red algae used as a stabalizer in paints, dairy products, and many other emulsions |
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| marine algae that live in cool or temperate waters that contain fucoxanthin pigments and other cartenoids; commonly called kelps |
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| algae which contain chlorophylls a and b and are structurally and biochemically most like plants and are their clostest relatives |
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| protozoans such as amoebas, foraminiferans, helizoans, and radiolarians that move by means of pseudopodia |
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| disease caused by the amoebic parasite Entaamoeba |
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| protozoans such as paramecia that move by means of cilia |
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| tough but flexible outer covering of certain protozoans such as paramecia |
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| form of sexual reproduction in certain protozoans such as paramecia |
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| nuclei swapped during this conjugation |
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| protozoans that move by means of flagella |
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| African sleeping sickness |
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| disease caused by the flagallated parasite Tyrpanosoma brucei |
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| vector that transmits the african sleeping sickness |
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| mineral found in the overlapping shells of diatoms |
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| deosit of diatoms used in filter, abrasive cleaners, and toothpaste |
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| a red algal wrapping for rice and fish in sushi bars |
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| derivative from the cell walls of brown algae used as thickenin, emulsifying, and suspension agents |
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